müstehzi

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مستهزی‎ (müstehzi), from Arabic مُسْتَهْزِئ‎ (mustahziʔ), active participle of اِسْتَهْزَأَ‎ (istahzaʔa).

Adjective

müstehzi

mocking
- 1938 July 16, Niyazi Ahmet, “Dersimli Kız”, in Vakit, page 2:
  Kız gülümsiyordu. Dudaklarında müstehzi bir kıvrılış vardı.
  (please add an English translation of this quote)
sarcastic

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مستهزی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1165
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مستهزی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1851
Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

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